Prashant Chopra (born 7 October 1992) is an Indian

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er. He was in the

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champion India Team. Chopra represents

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in the Ranji Trophy and holds the record of most runs by a Himachal Pradesh batsman in a Ranji Trophy season.

Career

In October 2017 in the

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, he made 271

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on the opening day in the fixture between Himachal Pradesh and Punjab. This was the second-most runs scored in one day in the Ranji Trophy and the joint-highest score made by a player for Himachal Pradesh. Chopra went on to make 338, the tenth-highest total by a batsman in the Ranji Trophy and the first triple-century by a batsman for Himachal Pradesh. He was the leading run-scorer for Himachal Pradesh in the 2017–18 Ranji Trophy, with 581 runs in five matches. In January 2018, he was bought by the

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in the 2018 IPL auction. In July 2018, he was named in the squad for India Green for the

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. He was the leading run-scorer for Himachal Pradesh in the

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, with 329 runs in six matches. In October 2018, he was named in India B's squad for the

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. The following month, he scored his 3,000th run in first-class cricket, batting for Himachal Pradesh against

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in the

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. He was released by the Rajasthan Royals ahead of the 2020 IPL auction.

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